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Get Off Your High Horse: Lightning Injuries and Equestrians
In New Jersey this week, two humans and six horses were struck by lightning at a polo match (from Ashbury Park Press): COLTS NECK — Two people and six horses were knocked unconscious Sunday after l… more »
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Get Off Your High Horse: Lightning Injuries and Equestrians
barn owl wrote 5 days ago: In New Jersey this week, two humans and six horses were struck by lightning at a polo match (from A … more »
BBC World Service | World Update with Dan Damon | Happy Holiday
Bergryc wrote 4 weeks ago: Happy Holiday It's a bit like a holiday not getting up before 5am, as I usually do. I'm w … more »
Toxics Thursday: Bisphenol A and Early Oogenesis
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: Last week, I discussed the effects of the estrogenic polymer, bisphenol A, on comb development and … more »
Toxics Thursday: Rooster Combs and Bisphenol-A
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barn owl wrote 1 month ago: Bisphenol-A (BPA), a plastic compound used in dental sealants and to coat food and drink containers … more »
Spotted Owls and Barred Owls: Whoooo Has Malaria?
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: In the US, we’re often concerned about invasive and range-extending species entering ecosyste … more »
Fish on Friday: Good Day, Sunfish
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barn owl wrote 1 month ago: The Ocean Sunfish, members of the family Molidae, are related to pufferfish, and possess a number o … more »
Anatomy Week: Brain Heaters in Marlins and Sailfish
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: Like many children, I was fascinated with the ocean and its wildlife, whether along the beach and j … more »
Anatomy Week: Stupid Yogi Tricks, the Valsalva Maneuver, and Hypoxia
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: Health care professionals working with a variety of patients have reported beneficial effects from … more »
Anatomy Week: Anabolic Androgenic Steroids, East German Athletes, and the Amygdala
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: In 1976, I remember watching Olympic athletes from the mysterious German Democratic Republic, a rel … more »
Anatomy Week: Connecting the Thalamus and the Cerebral Cortex
barn owl wrote 1 month ago: The vertebrate brain has evolved, in large part, to integrate and process multiple types of sensory … more »
Earth Week Posts 4. Leptospirosis and the Urban Slum Environment
barn owl wrote 2 months ago: My Earth Week series would not be balanced, without a post describing research on environmental con … more »
Earth Week Environment Posts 3. Plastic Debris and Sea Turtles
barn owl wrote 2 months ago: Humans cause a lot of problems for sea turtles, in spite of the status of these reptiles as charism … more »
Earth Week Environment Posts: 2. Organochlorine Contaminants in Sea Lions and Seals
barn owl wrote 2 months ago: Although polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) were banned thr … more »
Earth Week Environment Posts: 1. Oil Spills and Iguanas
barn owl wrote 2 months ago: Although maritime oil spills have declined in frequency and volume in the decades since 1960, they … more »
The Polycomb Repressive Complex in Platelet Development: Hematopoietic Stem Cells and Leukemia
barn owl wrote 2 months ago: Those of us who donate whole blood and platelets on a regular basis can do so in large part because … more »
Cream, No Sugar: Taking AIM at Pigment Dilution in Horses
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barn owl wrote 3 months ago: First the fish, in this story of a transporter protein, AIM1 (MATP), which regulates synthesis of t … more »
Toxics Thursday: Estrogen, Intersex Fish, and Population Collapse
barn owl wrote 3 months ago: In a previous post, I wrote about vitellogenin genes, which are expressed in the liver to produce y … more »
Got Milk? Lactation and Placentation Replace Yolky Eggs
barn owl wrote 3 months ago: Most non-mammalian vertebrates produce eggs with stores of yolk platelets, to provide nutrients to … more »
Don't You Step On My Blue Sulid Shoes
barn owl wrote 3 months ago: While the benefits gained by female birds paired with males exhibiting bright, sexually dimorphic c … more »
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